“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster... When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you...” Kidnapped. Imprisoned. Tortured. The wizard Irenicus holds you captive in his stronghold, attempting to strip you of the powers that are your birthright.

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“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster... When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you...”

Kidnapped. Imprisoned. Tortured. The wizard Irenicus holds you captive in his stronghold, attempting to strip you of the powers that are your birthright.

Can you resist the evil within you, forge a legend of heroic proportions, and ultimately destroy the dark essence that haunts your dreams? Or will you embrace your monstrous nature, carve a swath of destruction across the realms, and ascend to godhood as the new Lord of Murder?

Features

Throne of Bhaal: Travel to Tethyr in this thrilling conclusion to the Bhaalspawn saga, and delve into the treasure-filled halls of Watcher’s Keep!

Fist of the Fallen: Help the Sun Soul Monk Rasaad find peace in his quest for vengeance, and determine the fate of a heretical sect.

A Price Paid in Blood: Join the Blackguard Dorn in carving a swath of destruction across the Realms, as he struggles to appease the increasingly bloody demands of his dark patron.

A Voice in the Dark: Recruit the mysterious Thief Hexxat and take up her mission of retrieving long-lost artifacts from tombs as far away as Zakhara..

In Defense of the Wild: Protect the innocent and stand with Neera the Wild Mage against a ruthless school of Red Wizards.

The Black Pits II - Gladiators of Thay: Explore the tactical depth of high-level Dungeons & Dragons combat. Turn your captors against each other while you dodge traps and battle for your life against Demi-Liches, Mind Flayers, and the legendary Githyanki.

Widescreen and More: Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition features full widescreen support, remastered area artwork from original renders, and a host of other interface and gameplay improvements.

The 1.3 Release: The latest update to Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition fixes hundreds of gameplay issues and adds dozens of new enhancements such as adjustable font sizes, improved party pathfinding, and much, much more.

Note: All translations are text only. Voice-overs are played in English.

No idea i had one of the highest hours on record for this game ^^ , Well i suppose i am entitled to write at least a little about this game.

Pro's-Game never gets old-Very Depth filled story-Great Strategy/Tactics game-price is very generouse for such a great game-Graphics are not mind blowing but are good-Multiplayer is legendary

Cons (Not any cons i can think of honestly all around amazing game but if i had to choose some..)-if your reading this and dont have this game , The fact that you have't bought this game yet (WHAT ARE YOU DOING BUY IT ALREADY AND BECOME A LEGEND!)-They need to come out with a 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 and so on , there HAS to be more ^^

I know Comign from somone with both games and over 1000 Hours+ (i have this game seperate from steam in CD form played it just as long) This is kind of a lame review but at least i gave one ;P

This game is great honestly , if your into this kind of gaming you cannot pass this up. 10/10

I played this with my friend, we had been waiting for years upon years to play this game on multiplayer and were SO excited for the enhanced edition. Like for 10+ years we waited for this to happen, and it finally did.

And oh boy, was I disappointed.

All that time, he had said that he solod the entire game as a Paladin, cutting through everything, chopping it all to bits, but oddly he never took the conversation further when I started namedropping specific items and builds.

I know why.

I will tell you why.

We have just escaped the mindflayer prisons and are finding a way out.

Me- "Wait, let me open the door and we will pull them here and trap them."Him- *Charges in and gets killed in 3 hits by mindflayers*

We are helping the rebellion of a sahuaguin prince who wants to overthrow a usurper to his throne and wander into a pit of zombies that poison us with every hit.

Me- *Surrounded by monsters, low on health, poisoned, pauses the game to choreograph a battle plan*Him- "Stop pausing the game, let me win!!!"Me- "No, wait, I'm a druid, let me figure this out or I'm toast, I'll buff you with haste."Him- "WHY WON'T YOU LET ME WIN!!" *Spams unpause so I think sod it, I die, he dies*Him- "HAHAHAHAH"

We find ourselves confronted with some kind of puzzle, 6 treasure chests lay in a circle around us and the floor is riddled with traps.

Me- "Ok, let me disarm all the traps."Him- *Charges across the room, gets turned to stone* "Reload."Me- "No it's okay, I'll stone to flesh you." *Stone to flesh on him*Him- *Walks into exactly the same trap, turns to stone*Me- "Why did you do that?" *Rests, stone to flesh on him*Him- *Walks into the same trap again*Me- "Stop doing that, are you dumb?" *Rests, stone to flesh on him*Him- *Finally stops, lets me disarm all the traps on the floor*Him- *Walks around the room opening all of the chests one by one, eating acid arrows, magic missiles, and then finally a death spell*Him- "Reload."Me- "No, I can revive you." *Revives him* "Just stand right there don't move." *Disarms every single trap*Him- *Opens all the chests takes all the items equips the +4 spear on his other character*Me- "That's an upgrade for me can I have it?"Him- "BRB." *for 45 minutes*

We are in the sewers under the city and encounter a particularly nasty pack of bandits who killed us on two attempts to fight them head on.

Me- "Ok wait here, I will pull them to us one by one, they are tough man, the spellcasters cast stuns so we need to get them alone."Him- "Ok."Me- *Moves toward them slowly to get aggro, notices he's running up behind me, pause it* "Wait back there, please."Him- *silence*Me- "OK? Wait back there ok??"Him- *silence*Me- *unpauses it*Him- *Charges passed me and attacks them all, gets stunned, gets killed*

We get ambushed in a lodge in the windspear hills, we are low level compared to this area and quest but we are powering through. He gets killed playing with a solo mindset and trying to take on a heavily armoured dwarf who is cleaving a third of his health with each hit and a couple of his lackeys. I manage to take on the wizard by myself and use up my last healing spell keeping myself alive, as I know my friend is dead and I've already wasted my other charges on him.

Him- "Why didn't you heal me? It's your job."

I rooted and managed to kill the lackeys using bear form and using my potions. With just me and the dwarf left, I notice that he really does hit mega hard and decided to run out of the house to try and lose aggro and catch a rest. He didn't stop following me, and 2 wild dogs came out of nowhere and attacked me too. In a moment of true tension I turn 180 and run straight passed the dwarf with dogs in tow. To my sheer amazement and relief, the dogs started attacking the dwarf and he stopped to fight them!! In the moments of freedom I got, I casted a root spell from out of view distance and then ran inside the house.

I noticed I still had my daily heal spell up, so I used it on myself, getting me to about half health and I turned into a bear and waited. In comes the dwarf, mad as hell and covered in dog's blood. The next 10 seconds were a blur. He hits me, hard, I'm one hit from death. I hit him, he misses. I hit him again, he misses. I miss.... he misses, then I kill him with a final maul to the face. PHEW!!!!!

Carrying all of his gear, I only have enough strength in bear form to carry it plus his corpse to the temple in the city to revive him. So I trundle across the land carrying him and all of his gear over my back, as a bear. By far the most epic and tense moments I've EVER HAD in any RPG, ever. Full stop.

Him- "If you didn't pause it so much I would have killed them. It's so annoying when you're pausing it all the time"

Me- "Did you see what happened? It was epic man."

Him- "No I was chatting with my bro in his room."

The game is full on amazing, always has been, always will be. The new characters are a little annoying and I ended up turning the girl in the copper coronet to stone because she wouldn't shut up about going to the crypt to find the treasure, like literally she went on about it nonstop and her voice.... argh.... she makes a pretty statue.

But just make sure you have a teammate who understands what this game is all about, understands tactics, is patient and has an IQ above 80.

Me and a few friends picked up this game on sale because we wanted to play through the game on co-op. It's a lot of fun, but borderline unplayable due to the constant glitches and how often the game crashed, especially during cutscenes. It's been about a year and a half, and so far none of the patches have fixed it. No amount of uninstalling or reinstalling has fixed it. The single player is still great, but if you pick this game up to play with friends, beware.

God only knows how many hours I've poured into this game across so many different platforms and computers, but it must be well into the thousands (I have three of the original CD copy sat next to me on a shelf, including the collector's edition!) I promise to change that one day soon.

I'll start by addressing my low playtime on here. I bought the steam version before it supported Mac, foolishly without checking, and because I spend almost all my time on it throughout the day I knew I was never going to play on my main rig - so I purchased it again from the AppStore.

As for a review, the EE version of BG2 doesn't change much of the original game, but what it does do is fix it and update it. It brings compatibility with different resolutions, bug fixes, smoothness. The whole shabang. It's startling that since playing the Enhanced Edition I've not had a single crash, save game fail, or random lack of an NPC or item vital to completing a quest - all of which I have experienced in the past a number of times on my countless playthroughs. The EE's main strength is that it optimises it for modern hardware (not that it was hard to run in the first place) and as a result runs smoother than a velvet undergarment.

But what I would say about the Enhanced Edition is that at no point did it feel like I was playing a different version of BG2 (aside from it's lack of faults) which in one way is fantastic as the game was near-perfect anyway, but in another way feels like a bit of a con given the price difference - if you're happy to put up with the occasional bug or crash, then £15 is a bit steep compared to the £5 the original is available elsewhere.

In the end, for me, the multi-platform capability and faultless gameplay of the EE version on here justifies what is, in all honesty, not too much to ask for one of the greatest games of all time. You just have to ask if the extra £10 is worth it to you.